Posted on 08/27/2022 4:56:56 PM PDT by Libloather
The day after Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook limited a polarizing story ahead of the 2020 election because of an FBI warning, the federal agency said it can only alert a private entity of a potential threat, not require it to take action.
In an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast made available Thursday, Zuckerberg said that although the FBI didn't specifically name a New York Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop, it "fit the pattern" of what the FBI warned about.
The Facebook cofounder said the FBI is a "legitimate institution" and that the warning prompted him to "take that seriously." The story was allowed to remain on Facebook, albeit with limited exposure, Zuckerberg said.
In a statement Friday night, the FBI said it has provided companies with “foreign threat indicators” to help protect their platforms and customers, but that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”
“The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” the agency said.
Meta on Friday night responded to the FBI statement via Twitter. “The FBI shared general warnings about foreign interference - nothing specific about Hunter Biden," the statement said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
So did the FBI warning of a Russian disinformation drop ever come to fruition?
We're not sayin' ya have ta do anyting for us.
We're just sayin' what would your life be like witout us lookin' out for ya?
Fartbook will always help libtards censor the truth that will never change.
I don’t waste my time using their spyware garbage so I don’t really care how rigged it is
Liars.
Why are we assuming that Mark Zuckerburg, WHO HATES US, is going on a libertarian rabble-rousing show who’s target audience is the very people he hates...
.. is telling the truth with no fault in his recollection at all. Recollection being key here because the man is clearly insane.
The key qualities here are cancelling each other out. I want to believe this because he’s talking about the FBI but honestly the FBI didn’t have to call him and tell him anything because he himself wanted Trump to lose because he profitted.
I’ll remember what Alex Jones said in 2016: “I would profit very well from Hillary becoming president.”
He’s right.
Yea, wink, wink, nod, nod.
How stupid do they think we are?
Indeed they admitted it when they said they told Facebook to kill any Hunters lap stories.
Guilty need to be charged but we know the end of that story.
Facebook in the last few days has modified its AI to start posting leftist articles and leftists threads on pages that their database profiles as the person being conservative.
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